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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Franklin is a town in and the county seat of Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 486 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Franklin was established in 1794 and named for Francis Evick, an early settler.
Franklin Historic District is a national historic district located at Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 111 contributing buildings, mostly residences. It also includes the central business district, much of it rebuilt after a fire in 1924.
Ananias Pitsenbarger Farm is an historic home and farm complex located in the unincorporated community of Dahmer, near Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. [2] The original section of the house was built in 1845, and includes the 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story section on the north end, with a later 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story addition built about 1900.
In Mason County, where small farms were reliant upon slavery, its residents overwhelmingly supported the Union cause. [9] During the war, many plantations in West Virginia served as preferred venues for military headquarters and meeting places for both Union and Confederate military officers due to their adequate accommodations and resources.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,143, [1] making it the second-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Franklin . [ 2 ] The county was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 [ 3 ] from parts of Augusta , Hardy , and Rockingham counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), a distinguished ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
McCoy Mill is a historic grist mill on U.S. Highway 220, three miles south of Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built in 1845, and has a late 19th- to early 20th-century addition. It was built in 1845, and has a late 19th- to early 20th-century addition.